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Science 24 June 1966:
Vol. 152. no. 3730, pp. 1768 - 1769
DOI: 10.1126/science.152.3730.1768
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Visual Receptive Fields in the Cat's Retina: Complications

D. N. Spinelli 1

1 Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto California 94304

Visual receptive fields have been mapped with moving patterns in the cat's retinal ganglion cells. A small, general-purpose computer was used to collect a matrix of 2500 data points covering a 25°-by-25° region of space. The analysis of 40 units reveals the existence of many nonconcentric receptive fields and also the presence of line and edge detectors.


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